I've read all the replies until this post and I have my own thoughts.  The only mistake that I've did during my life (at least for the IT part) was using
MS compilers.  I am talking about 18 years of experience.  I never expressed myself before.  But I've developed a lot of successful applications
using different compilers and different platforms staring from COBOL and mainframes through MS C and IBM OS/2 including VB and Windows.  MS
compilers are so buggy that the editor of the IDE can recognize a syntax error or a run-time error before the compiler does.  During my old MS
days, every time I face a bug I keep praying for months that MR $ will give some attention to me and all the other poor guys whom paid money for
him to fix the bug.  So to my poor friend who will change to MS, I say good bye for quality and welcome to garbage and the REAL stone-age...

"Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Stephan
>
>>So you are saying, I should write down all field properties on paper,
>>remove that column
>>and then recreate it? You are going back to stone-age with EDB...
>
> No - In EDBMan click on the column you want to delete, EDBMan populates
> the various editboxes with the definition data for the column. Click
> delete. Alter the bits you want to alter, click add and move it where you
> want.

Does this also work for non-empty tables? Are the contents kept in place?

RJ

Royke


My understanding is that it should do.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Does this also work for non-empty tables? Are the contents kept in place?
>>

Yes, as long as you don't change the column name at all.

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